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When some stores have chip terminals and some have magnetic strip readers how do we buy stuff at both places? How does the chip technology help when the credit card numbers are stolen in a data breach more »

I went to school in the rural south and never cracked a book to get mostly A's. I got to college and discovered that other students had not attended ding-dong school. Absent of standardized tests comm more »

Here's the problem with Zipcar, it requires a brain to use. Come on people, if there are 200 shared cars are available in municipal spaces, way more than 200 people will share those spaces and elimina more »

Here's the problem with Zipcar, it requires a brain to use. Come on people, if there are 200 shared cars are available in municipal spaces, way more than 200 people will share those spaces and elimina more »

"Believing that his domestic agenda could not be sustained if he didnât show sufficient hawkishness on Vietnam, he began the journey down the slippery slope of war in Southeast Asia, 'even though mo more »

Maybe it's because I don't see the NFL as some kind of religion how is it the NFL is responsible for a wife beater. It appears to me that the Catholic church has gotten away with a lot worse stuff. Th more »

The Republican party seems to be trying to make Richard Nixon look good. There are some genuinely bad people in congress and you have to wonder about the people who elected them. What happens to a Rep more »

So Honda shows an autonomous car prototype to be on the market by 2020. Yesterday GM announced yesterday that they would be selling an autonomous car in 2015. Does anybody in this country read the pap more »

How is it that when Apple does something that has been done before all of these experts foam at the mouth describing it as a breakthrough? Oh, yea, these experts have words and expertise to sell and a more »

The apple fan boys seem to have no idea that iphone was not the first phone to play music, Apple provided itunes so that users could easily acquire music, etc. Same with the ipad, in itself no great i more »

I know that chimps can be taught to speak sign language but I'm not believing that Bozos with guns can be taught 'responsibility'. If you drive a car you know that perfectly intelligent and responsibl more »

I was very happy to find Ms. Kotz's article. I was wondering about the apparent contradiction and in a few paragraphs quoting Dr. Mozaffarian I got a clear, credible explanation and some advice. This more »

There is no way in which a reclining seat endangers your laptop or knees. You say the seat reclines 4 inches, I think it is more like 3. What a bunch of whiners. I heard about a guy who offers to buy more »

There is only one question that is relevant here, are authors making more or less money since Amazon? People are 'frightened' or 'worried' by Amazon's size and success. Grow up! Publishers are buggy w more »

Yeah, the Olympics are sort of cool but what would it mean to Boston? It is a giant money pit. The Olympics is for cities that need to validate themselves. Boston does not. Boston is not NYC. Boston i more »

Same sex couples have been around forever--people like who they like. Giving such unions legal status is what's new. Fuzzpot got it right. In the modern world all these legal formalities like property more »

You know, I like the three mirrors reflecting tiny bits of light that became less defined as the distance increased. Sure, after Tara Donavan and Anish Kapore and maybe Shepard Fairy everything else g more »